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[Mark A. Mandel]

"James A. Landau" <JJJRLandau at AOL.COM> writes:

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The Mike Todd movie of "Around the World in Eighty Days" (released around
1955) shows a barroom scene which includes a "free lunch", complete with Red
Skelton playing the part of a freeloader.  I have no evidence whether bars in
the late 19th Century offered "free lunches".
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Barry?

-- Mark A. Mandel